LITFL Review 307
Welcome to the 307th LITFL Review! Your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peeks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the blogosphere’s best and brightest, and deliver a bite-sized chunk of Global FOAM.
The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the Week
Here’s a series of integrated Sepsis lectures from the Maryland CCProject. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
- Don’t pull! Chad Simpkins and the EMDaily crew review what to do when an imminent breech delivery presents to the ED. Step 1: Call for help! [RP]
- CRACKcast is serving up 3 great podcast episodes covering core content in Rosen’s 9th edition on electrolyte disorders, diabetes, and rhabdomyolysis. [MG
- The EM Clerkship podcasts teaches a medical student approach for the ill recent traveler. [MG]
- The new PHEMcast is all about intraosseous access. [MG]
- Dr Smith has two great ECG cases, both with subtle findings that make the case. [MG]
The Best of #FOAMcc Critical Care and #FOAMres Resuscitation
- How does protocolized sepsis care play out in a resource-limited setting? The Bottom Line reviews a recent trial on the subject. [MS]
- Holy HITTS! A challenging ECMO case is presented by the team from the Alfred. [SO]
The Best of #FOANed Nursing
- Great podcast from the Resus Nurse on DKA management and pearls. [SR]
The Best of #FOAMus Ultrasound
- Want to know how to make your peripheral IVs last longer? Find out more in this study by @UCSDsono [CMD]
- The POCUS Atlas released the winning images in their “Golden Probe Award”. Don’t miss the Stone in the Sword! [LP]
- The role of POCUS in optimizing pre-intubation management: a discussion with our own Cian McDermott, hosted by our own Phillipe Rola on his web site (Alas, the audio is not great but the discussion is interesting!) [JSh]
The Best of #FOAMpeds Pediatrics
- Distal fingertip injuries are even harder to manage when the target is moving. The team at Academic Life in Emergency Medicine has a great Trick of the Trade: the Finger Immobilization Technique. You’ll want to add this to your repertoire! [RP]
The Best of #FOAMim Internal Medicine
- The Methods Man, F. Perry Wilson, reviews a recent JAMA Internal Medicine article comparing outcomes and resource utilization between hospitalists and primary care physicians. Could re-integration of PCPs lead to better outcomes? [RP]
- Remember this from last week? “Check out this podcast from The Healthy Debate’s Rounds Table, the first half of a lecture from the CSIM Annual Meeting detailing the first 2 of this year’s top 5 papers in internal medicine. [RP]” Well, a week later and the remaining 3 papers are online in Part 2.[ML]
- Take a deep breath and enjoy the video lecture on Asthma by Louisville Lectures. [ML]
The Best of #MedEd FOAM and #FOAMsim
- A well written piece on CORE EM, about the paradox of being an emergency medicine physician/trainee [SR]
LITFL Weekly Review Team
LITFL RV brought to you by:
Anand Swaminathan [AS] (EM:RAP, Core EM,REBEL EM and The Teaching Institute)
Andrew J. Bowman [AJB]
Bruno Tomazini [BT] (ICURevisited)
Chris Connolly [CC] (RCEMFOAMed, FOAMShED)
Chris Nickson [CN] (RAGE, INTENSIVE and SMACC)
Cian McDermott [CMD] (POCUS Geelong, SMACC)
Craig Wylie [CW] (BadEM)
Jeffrey Shih [JSh](ALiEM)
Luke Phillips [LP] (POCUS Geelong)
Manpreet ‘Manny’ Singh [MMS] (emDOCs.net)
Marjorie Lazoff [ML] (TandemHealth)
Mat Goebel [MG]
Matt Siuba [MS]
Philippe Rola [PR] (Thinkingcriticalcare)
Rick Pescatore [RP] (EM News UC:RAP)
Sarah Newman [SN]
Salim Rezaie [SR] (REBEL EM, The Teaching Institute)
Segun Olusanya [SO] (JICSCast, The Bottom Line)
Thomas C. Neal [TCN]
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Marjorie Lazoff, MD FACP. Board certified internist with clinical background in academic emergency medicine, currently the founder of The Healing Red Pen, an editorial consulting company. Dr Lazoff is a full-time editor and strong supporter of FOAMed.